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一个z=3.045的莱曼α发射晕,拥有一个QSO,可能是活动星系核触发恒星形成的候选者

A z=3.045 Lyman alpha emitting halo hosting a QSO and a possible candidate for AGN-triggered star-formation

Michael Rauch, George D. Becker, Martin G. Haehnelt, Robert F. Carswell, Jean-Rene Gauthier

摘要:

本文是关于z ~ 3处扩展的非对称莱曼α辐射源的性质的系列文章的第三篇,我们报道了在一次超深、盲、光谱长缝巡天中,在一个红移为3.045的类星体周围发现了一个莱曼α辐射晕。类星体是一个先前已知的、被遮蔽的活动星系核。晕看起来沿着狭缝的方向延伸,在类星体的投影上显示出两个相隔17千秒差距的微弱斑块。二维光谱与档案HST ACS图像的比较表明,这些补丁符合空间发射从一个特殊的,哑铃形,暗淡的星系。假设莱曼α发射补丁起源于星系和星系的物理关系的类星体是在方差与光度估计的星系红移。然而,我们发现,在类星体的红移非常年轻的恒星的人口可能适合现有的休息框架宽波段紫外光度的星系。如果这种假设是正确的,那么星系的对称性和莱曼α辐射,类星体莱曼α辐射的延伸方向,以及可能存在的年轻恒星星族在一个(短命的)活动星系核附近表明,这可能是活动星系核反馈触发外部恒星形成的一个例子。

英文摘要:

In this third paper in a series on the nature of extended, asymmetric Lyman alpha emitters at z ~ 3 we report the discovery, in an ultra-deep, blind, spectroscopic long-slit survey, of a Lyman alpha emitting halo around a QSO at redshift 3.045. The QSO is a previously known, obscured AGN. The halo appears extended along the direction of the slit and exhibits two faint patches separated by 17 proper kpc in projection from the QSO. Comparison of the 2-dimensional spectrum with archival HST ACS images shows that these patches coincide spatially with emission from a peculiar, dumbbell-shaped, faint galaxy. The assumptions that the Lyman alpha emission patches are originating in the galaxy and that the galaxy is physically related to the QSO are at variance with photometric estimates of the galaxy redshift. We show, however, that a population of very young stars at the redshift of the QSO may fit the existing rest frame broad band UV photometry of the galaxy. If this scenario is correct then the symmetry of the galaxy in continuum and Lyman alpha emission, the extension of the QSO's Lyman alpha emission in its direction, and the likely presence of a young stellar population in close proximity to a (short-lived) AGN suggest that this may be an example of AGN feedback triggering external star formation in high redshift galaxies.

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